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s I? w^m Detached Catering. H It is possible in these days to get almost any detached service from caterers. Lemonade alone will be fnr|V nished on demand by the gallon, and at a rate little higher than its home r. ??i.i ruiajuuiauiurc nuuiu tuoi. wwv) and nothing else, is sent out by some establishments in vessels specially prepared for the service. In these the drink is kept very hot, fresh, and, in faot, at the perfection standard for an entire evening.?New York Post. Honolulu now has a magnificent new opera house. Too Much Bark. It is not the best watchdog that barks the most The old watchdog lays low and seizes the burglar before he knows it. In the treat, ment of rheumatism many sufferers tain too much and do too little. If they want to And out what is best for it, let them get St. Jacobs Oil and use ir. It is a good watchdog against the intrusion of pain. It goes to work quickly and surely, and seizes hold of rheumatism for the purpose of driving It out, and holds on until Its purpose is accomplished. It is, therefore, the best remedy, because it takes the best means to accomplish its end. as many who have suffered for years with the ailment will testify. The cure is the same in chronic or inflammatory cases. With patience and a fr^e U3e of it, the worst cases of longstanding have been finally cured by it. Owing to the unusual snowfall in Switzerland the chamois have become so tame in Borne places that they visit the stables iD 6earch of food. No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. Over 400,000 curei. Why not let No-To-Bac regulate or remove your desire for tobacco} H Saves money, makes health and manhood. " * -1 FA CI Hfi of oil hfMKM VUrt? ^UUlltUlCCU. lA/ UCUlO uuu yiAiWi u.w tu. ! druggists. ES The Nebraska Legislature has repealed the |H bill passed two years ago placing a premium mM on the destruction of the Russian thistle. Merit Wins. 8ffB| The invention of Alabastine marked a new mm era in w;tll con tines, and from the standpoint of the building owner was a most imp/n-tant mf discovery. It has from a small be/innine branched out into every country of the civilized world. The name "kalsomine" has become so offensive to property owners that manufacturers of cheap kalsomine preparations are now calling them by some other name, and attempting to sell on the Alabastine company's reputation. Throuzh extensive advertising and personal /use, the merits of the durable Alabastine are so thoroughly known that the people insist on Retting these goods and will take no chanca of spoiling their walls for a possible savin? or at the most but a few cents. Thus it is again demonstrated that merit wins, and that manufacturers of tirst-clnss articles will be supported by the people. 8100 Reward. S100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has oeen able 10 cure in all its Btages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known te the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy, ing the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strensrth by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing itt work. The proprietors have so much faith is Its curative powers that they offer One Hun" a Tx-'' ' ? U Mletnnnm I Grea iur auy two iuau *? *?4.s> w Send lor list of testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. ; Sold by Druggists, 75c. X Hall's Family Pills are the best. Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys and bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe: 10c. Florida. The West Coast of Florida, the finest semirc.iical country In the world. Illustrated descriptive book sent npon receipt four cents postage. J. J. Farnsworth, Eastern Pass. Agent, Plant System. 2C1 Broadway, N. Y. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children , teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle I Jttst try a 10c. box of Cascarets. the finest liver and bowel regulator ever made. ' FITSstopped freeandpermanentlycured. Nc ( ;flts after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great / nerve restorer. Free$2 trial bottieand treatise. Send to Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St., Phila.,Pa After sis years' suffering I was cured by Pibo's Cure.?Mary Thomson. 29% Ohio Ave.. Allegheny. Pa.. March 19.1894. If afflicted withsoreeyesuseDr. IsaacThomp- I Bon's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c.per bottle. When bilious or co3tive, eat a Cascaret candy cathartic; euro guaranteed: 10c.. 25c. A RUNNING SORE On My Brother's Foot and White j Swftllinor on His Knee Kept growing worse in spite of medical treat ment. I often heard of cures by Hood's Sarsaparilla and persuaded ray mother to give it ; to him. Soon he was able to walk about the room. We continued giving him Hood's SarBaparillaand he is now cured." Miss Mary Mascarie, Aurora. Indiana. Remember j Hood's Sarsaparilla b the best?the One True Blood Purifier. Dill* are the only nills to take ! 'llOQu S * lilS with Hood's Sarsaparilla. ! CURES AND TREVEXTS Colds, Couehs, Sore Throat, Influenza, Bronchitis, Pneumonia, Swelling of the Joints, Lumbago, Inflammation. Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Frostbites, Chilblains, Headache, Toothache, Asthma, DIFFICULT BREATHING. . CURES THE WORST PAISS in from one tc twenty minutes. NOT ONE HOl'K after reading thi? flrlv^rtLseiiieiit need anyone SUFFER W1TB PAIN. - Kadway'n Iteariy Belief in n Sure Cure lot Every I'ain, ."Sprains, Bruises, Pains iu the Back. ('neHt or EimbH. It wa* the First. and in the Only PAIN REMEDY That instantly stops the most excruciating pains, allavs inflammation, and cures Congestions.whether of the Lungs. Stomach, Bowels or other glands 01 organs, bv one application. , When Cskd Inteunallt?A half to a teaspoonfu) to half a tumbler of water will in a few minutef cure Cramps, Spasms, Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Sick Headache, Diarrh'fa; Dysentery, Colic, Flatulency and all interna) pains. Fifty centH per bottle. Sold by Druggists. KADWAY & CO., NEW YORK. J*. BE SI:KE TO CET KADWAY'S. SO nO 00 Reward in Gold! faUwl Well Worth Trying For. In the word BEAUTIFUL are nine letters. Yon are smart enough to make fourteen words, we fee) sure: and if you do you will receive a reward. Do not use a letter more times than it occurs in the wcrd BEAUTIFUL. Use only English words. The Household Publishing and Printing Co., proprietors of The Household Companion, will pay sjoo.uii in gold to the person able to make the longest list of English words l'rora the letters in the word BEAUTIFUL: S.'iu.uufor the second longest: $20.0(1 for the third: $lo.W? each for the next live, and <Bo.ut) each for the next ten longest, lists. The atnive rewards are given free, and solely for the purpose of attracting attention to our handsome laities' magazine, THE HOUSEHOLD COMPANION, containing forty-eight pages finely illustrated. Latest Fashions, articles on Floriculture. Cycling, Cookery, General Household Hints, etc., and stories by the best standard Authors: published monthly, price SO cents pe.- year making it the lowest-priced magazine jn America. In order to enter the contest it is necessary for yon to send with your list of words FOURTEEN 2-cent stamps, or Su cents in silver, which will entitle you to a half-year's subscription to THE HOUSEHOLD COMPANION. In addition to the above prizes we will give to everyone sending ' us a list of fourteen or more words a handsome sil\ ver souvenir spoon. Lists should be sent as soon as i possible, and not later than April 3d, 1?S?7, so that J the names of successful contestants may be pub( lished in the April issue of THE HOUSEHOLD I COMFANION. We refer you to any mercan He agency as to our standing. Household Publisliiiia &. Printing Co., ?B Bleecker St., New York City. CURtS WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. K U Best Cou?t Syrup. Tastes Good. Oso P Pfl in timo. Sold by druggists. 0? I j 7 CROPPING BEARING ORCHARDS. It requires some extra profitable crop, and one that will itself pay for a good deai of manure, to make the cropping of a bearing orchard pay. We have seen it done with both blackberries an 3 raspberries, both of which do well when partially shaded, and which will not suffer from drought, | as do most of the crops grown in orchards. On no account should grain crops be grown in the orchard, unless it be where young trees have grown to bearing size, but without producing a crop. Even, then, the result is better accomplished by sowing clover, to be grown for a year or two.? American Cultivator. THE HOME DAIRY. If on every farm more attention is /->+Vle Vinmn ilrtirv a hetfcer oroduct I of butter will be turned out and a greater yield per cow will be realized. The better tlie artiole the more sure the sale, and the larger the yield per cow the greater the net profit. Never try to do dairy work with beef cattle. Never trust alone to the pasture to supply the food. Be sure to have necessary conveniences of the best kind for securing the full quantity of butter fat from the milk. Every home dairy should raise its choicest heifer calves, iu order that the supply of good dairy cows may be kept up. It will pay for the trouble and ex? pense. Beside the ready sale at all seasons for good butter, the milk can ' M * __ J iL. De utilized in many ways, anu *ue droppings in the barnyard will be valuable as a fertilizer. Build up the home dairy on a stroijg basis. FEEDING FOB BEEF. A series of experiments conducted at the Mississippi Experiment Station, in feeding steers for the production of beef, with especial reference to the values of shredded corn fodder, and of the "Jack bean," as compared with the rations of ordinary hays and cottonseed meal, seemed to result as fol lows: 1. Shredded corn stalks need to have silage or 6ome similar feed mixed with them to make them palatable. 2. Shredded corn stalks are inferior to either crabgrass, peavine or red clover hay, though its less cost compensates for a part, or all, of the difference in feeding value. 3. Peavine hay is superior to either shredded corn or crab grass, but not equal ih feeding value to red clover hav. 4. The greatest gain and the most profitable gain was from feeding red clover huy. 5. Jack bean meAl is not eaten with relish, and appears to be so indigesti ble as to be worthless. 6. Cottonseed meal was the cheapest, as well us the most effective grain ration used. 7. Five and one-half pounds of cottonseed meal per steer per day was fed without injury, while seven and one half pounds was more than the steers could use to advantage. KEKPIN'G FARM ACCOUNTS. W. L. Hoge, an Ohio farmer, says in the American Agriculturist: How mauy farmers keep an account; that is, an expense and^cash account? All farmers should keep sucii record of all moneys received and expended on the farm. How many when asked the question, Hovr did you come out this yew, did your income exceed your expenses, etc. ? for the life of them they cannot tell. They know they had a lining and sold a little hay and corn in the fall, also a few hoge, probably a cow, but they can't tell at what price. mL _ v 1 ~ c ?n iiiU Jyi mi uicu uoo i.uic o*cij evening to jot down in a small book the day's sales and expenses; how interesting at the end of the year to count up each side of the account, and 6ee how you stand. Have a cash account and au account for receipts; that is, put down all moneys spent off the farm on one page, and on another all received. Give the farm credit for all house rent, such as dwellings, barns, etc., at what you would have to pay for same if rented. Credit farm with all feed sold or kept for use, all cattle, hogs, *heep and horses sold, pastur^ wood, your own living, etc. Charge farm with all labor and expense, taxe6, improvements, etc. Don't get your services too high; estimate your own services by what you would bo willing to pay another map for the 6ame work. I urge farmers to try this plan and you will become better acquainted with your own business, and be surprised at the end of the year. PRACTICAL SHEEP HU3BAXDKT. Try some ground oats and linseed ground together for the lambs; add a little sugar and teach the young lambs to take it from the hand. We have been three years getting rid of our flocks, and now we are trying to get them back again, but this di ision should occasion neither 6urpr st nor comment. It is the American way of doing things. The tame and gentle flock is always the most successful and profitable, and the successful shepherd is that one whose 6heep hear hiB voice and folio* him, of course in the humun way, for what they can get. The wool tariff is almost here, but where are the 47,1)00,000 sheep we were Rrazinir iu the spring of '!)3? A third of them went to the free trader's barbecue. If one wants early lambs next season, he must feed the ewes well just now, and puth forward the lambs for an early weaning. This will hasten the coupling time for the season. Should a young lamb get separated from its ^mother for some hours, be careful to milk her out thoroughly before you let the lami? have access to her. The "penned" milk is opt to kill the lamb. The beet thing to put on a lamb's tail alter docking it is a mixture of some carbolic shedp dip preparation and common lard or grease. If the dip is not accessible use turpentine. f. 5 * Soreness from wounds or amputation comes from the entrance of microbes; the preparation Kins tnem. Not in a dozen years has the demand for breeding ewes of all breeds and classes been so strong and widespread as now, and if Congress passes a reasonable wool tariff, the spring and early snmmer months will see a genuine, old-fashioned sheep boom of magnificent if not unparalleled proportions. "Wi.'.-re the sheep have to paw in the fro,7f:i snow for their feed, sore feet must '-e expected. The hard snow ie sharp y crystalline and wears the soft horu dmost like a rasp. ThiB explanation will account for much of this tror. I >le now complained of. The sharp crubt also accounts for many sore noses. ?American Sheep Breeder. THE FUTURE OF HAT FABMEKJ. The desire to cultivate as much land as possible in order to get the most possible from it has led to general neglect of meadow and pasture lands, says American Cultivator. Only when it was found that the soil had lost so much fertility that it would not pay for cultivating was it seeded down or left to grow up with suoh herbage, both weeds and grass, as nature provided. The resulf is that most of the land now in grass is by that very fact discredited as being presumably fit for nothing else. Yet there is in all grass land ? nnnRtanfc tendencv to increase in fertility. It is so even when the land is left to grow up with weeda and bushes. These shelter the surface,and hold the leaves that fall on the land from being blown away. The decomposition of these leave3 gradually builds up soil, and to this must be added the excrement from animals fed on the herbage which the soil is still able to grow. Usually when the improvement of grass land is determined upon the sod to be turned under and rot is regarded as an important Dart of the soil assets. Improving the land as meadow or pasture by manuring it and still keeping it unplowed is hardly ever thought of. Yet as in most cases this grass land is, even with manure, not quite rich enough for profitable cropping, the experiment is worth trying of applying to it such manure as can be had and see ^hat the increased grass or hay product will be worth. This is done successfully in England. Why may it not be also in the older parts of this country? Tne demand for hay is generally good in all F.ast.prn rMtifl.o. Will it r>av to fertilize ? JC* " / ^? grass ?o as to make the growing of hay profitable? If it will not pay to maintain fertility in grass land, the logical sequence is that all hay or grass taken from it helps to reduce the fertility so that the soil will be worth nothing for the production of any kind of crop. It is likely that in the future, as in the past, most of the hay crop in this country will be produced iu the years when the rotation between cultivated crops and grass requires that the land be seeded. Our climate is not moist like that of England. Henoe it cannot keep a good sod many \ears without plowing and reseeding. This also is so much the best for cultivated land that there need be no fe?r that the profits of cultivated crops will so lessen the amount of land in grass that there will not be hay enough to feed with gram and coarser fodder, nor that it will fail to be supplied at reasonable prices. POULTRY NOTES. Anything that will make milk will make eggs. A T?fl f?nmh iq fhe si(?n that the hen has eggs for sale. Some breeds are better for you than others, but any of them are profitable if well cared for. Hens all laving, cocks all crowing. Thi.s is as it should be on every farm. How is it on yours? Brau, cut clover, ground oats with hulls sifted out, and a small amount of corn-meal make3 an excellent eggproducing diet. The sale of pure-bred poultry if steadily increasing in the Northwest, and no Bection is more favorably situated for its development. A Wyandotte hen will increase in wpicht till she is three veara old. and at any time will oook tender if in gooc condition when killed. The next time you are in town asls the batcher for some fresh bones. A block and a sharp hatchet or ax will put them in shape for egg-productioc if you have no bone mill. Red mites are the worst enemy o! sitting hens. Sometimes it is neces sary to change location of the nesi entirely. Get ahead of them by pre paring hens and premises beforehand, Select your very best hens foi breeders. No matter if you have nc pure-brede among them, you can improve by selection. But a pure-brec ! male will aid wonderfully in the work, Soft feed should be mixed in th< morning in troughs that should b< turned over or hung up when the hem are through feeding. Do not feed sofl feed where the hens can scratch straw and chaif into it. Russia exported 11,000,000 eggs ii 1870, and 1,250,000,000 last year. Th< eggs are sold in Russia at from six t( ten cents a dozen. They are exporter to Hungary and theu sold to German] as Hungarian eggs; and finally got* England as German eggs. If you keep fowls give them u chanc< to pay their wa-y. Do not let it b your fault that they are not doing so Good care Bnd good blood will di this. If they are common stock onb the addition of a pure-bred mule wil bo one of the Burest ways, and one o i tho first btepa to be taken. ^ Taris is making the venture of lay ing down mahogany roadways. Th : Rue Lafayette has been puiled up am relaid with real Brazilian mahogany of a peculiarly fine texture and color CURIOUS FACTS. In Kansas irhole sections of lunc have suddenly disappeared, Jeavmp only fathomless lakelets to mark thei] location. There are 360 mountains in th< United States which have a height ex ceeding 10,003 ieet. The greatesl number is in Colorado and Utah. The bullet which killed Genera] "Stonewall" Jaok6on at Chancellorsville, r.s said to be in the possession ol Mr. Isaao B. Wheeler, of Highland Falk, N. Y. The Forth bridge, in Scotland, ii constantly being repainted. So vast is the structure that it takes fifty tone of paint to give it one coat, and the area dealt with is something like 120 acres. Food is served in one of the London restaurants on electricity heated I plates,, so that the guests can eai leisurely and still have the viands continue warm until the olose of the meal. The frog barometer, used in Germany and Switzerland, consists of a , jar of water, a frog, and a little wooden stepladder. If the frog comes out and eits on the steps, rain is expected. A mosaic map of Palestine, thirty feet long by fifteen broad, has been d:isoovered at a village between Salt and Kerak, east of the Jordan. The pavement is believed to belong to the fifth century after Christ. When lions and tigers are born in captivity, the greatest care has to be exorcised to keep them for several days in the dark and undisturbed, as otherwise the mothers will almost invariably destroy them. When a sus;piciouf;-looking person approaches one of the tellers in the Bank of France a private signal is given to a concealed photographer, and in a few seconds the suspected individual is secretly photographed. A French statistician has calculated that the human eye travelS over two thousand yards in reaiing an ordinarysized novel. The avorage human being is supposed to get through 2500 miles of reading in a lifetime. i^The smallest piece of real estate ever offered for sale by auction in New York was put up to-day in a partition eaie. It is a triangular lot with a frontage cf eight feet on St. Nicholas avenue, a depth of three feet on one side and a length of eight feet nine inches on the third line. The method of lighting up the interior of the human body, or some parts of it, was shown recently at Baltimore at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Prof. Friedenwald, by I means of a flexible rubber tube. passed a small electric lamp into the stomach of a patient, and the room being darkened,over two hundred persons were able to watch the working oil the patient's internal organs through the "transparency" created by the light in the abdominal wall. % * Did the Bird Hans Itself I A strange event happened at the Edieon laboratory in Orange, N. J., recently, which puzzled the great inventor and leit the question as much in doubt as ever. It is thought by soms Orangeites that an English sparrow committed suicide on the walls of the laboratory; by others that merely an accident occurred. The facta are as follows: In the end of the loft in one o:t the laboratory buildings in a diamond shaped arrangement o:f holes. These holes were left there for ventila** 1 tion purposes anu were mnuo uj ica ing oat certain bricks in the end wall of the house. They proved capita) nesting places ior the sparrows, and several of the birds were nol; slow to make use of them. One day the workmen around the building noticed s sparrow which was making a great to do over the repairing of a nest. The little fellow flew in a:id out of the hole, collecting all kinds of shreds and patches ana inierweavjug luom the old work of the nest. Finally the bird secured a long piece of grocer's cord, Buch as is used to tie up smal packages, and flow with it to the nest The workmen saw the bird enter the hole with the string trailing after it Then as the part of the cord still hang i ing oat of the hole was submitted tc several continued jerks they ooncludec that the bird was interweaving the oord with the fabric of the nest. The] dismissed the matter for the time be ing and went about their work. Later in the day the bird was seei to be hanging dead outside the hole A slipnoose on the end of the strins which it had been using to build the 1 nest was tightly drawn around its neel and part of the wing. A photograpl was taken on the spot and an ezamina *;/%n T* tpfta Avidnnt that the IliVU UIUUVI IVMW w . - ? i bird had drawn the string into th< hole nntil nothing bnt the alipnoos< I remained outside. Then for some pur pose had flown quickly out and in s< doing had passed its head througi the noose. The force with which th< [ noose closed around its neck must t have strangled the bird instantly. I hung limp, the interweaving of th< . other end of the string in the nea keeping it from falling to the ground Norway's First Ironclad. An ironolad for the Norwegian Gov' , ernment was launched lately from th< shipbuilding yard of Sir William Arm strong & Co., England. This is th< I first seagoing ironclad owned by thi Norsemen, who in the old days swepi the saas with their Viking ships. Thii 5 modern vessel was christened th< ? "Harold Haarfajjer," after the firs! 3 King of Norway, by Mme. Stange, wh< ^ is herself a descendant in the thirty 7 third generation from Kins: Harold The ironolad is heavily arinod and ha; 3 a conning tower and two torpedo tubes u and the armor belt its from four t< > seven inches thick. The builders havt J an order for a second ironclod for th( J Norwegians. The First Man Dressmaker. ? Ab far back as 1730 there was ii e Parin a man dressmaker, and probabb the first of his kind. His name wai 3 Rhomberg, and he was the son of i ? Bavarian peasant from the neighbor ' hood of Munich. Ho owed his succes * to his genius for concealing and rem edying defects of figure. He drove i beautiful carriage on the boulevard and had an escutcheon in the shape o e a pair cf cornets and an otcn pair o e scissors painted on the panel of eacl , door. Ho left a large fortune to hi heirs. Tasc fifSlu a Single Emerald. In the Cathedral of Genoa is pre' served, and has been for 600 rears, a J vase of immense valne. It is cnt ' from a single emerald. When ex hibited it is suspended around tne : neck of a priest by a cork, and no one is allowed to touch it but him. I ? Traveling through Osceola, Mo., on I his -way to a fairer country, with his possessions in a big wagon, a die; gruntled citizen displayed on the j eides of the* van this device: "In God We Trusted; in Missouri We Busted." ' Holland Still Wrowing. Holland has detormined upon a ( gigantic engineering feat?reclaiming of 787 square miles of land now lying 1 _ rw 3 rr.^ Li 1 _ J unaer me Ziuyaer aou. rjjgui uuuureu years ago all of Holland contained 600 1 square cailes of land, or less than one third of the area of the State of Delaware. Gradually, by means of great dikes, land has been reclaimed until 1 the present area is nearly 13,000 miles. This is more than twenty times the original area. The new work involves the construction of a dam twenty1 seven miles in length. The line will 1 run.from a point near Heider, which ia north of Amsterdam, to the Island of "Wieringen. Then from the east end of the island, which is ten miles long, connecting at a point just south of i Worknm. The dike will measure thirty-five feet at the base, tapering to eight feet at the top. The first task is the driving of two rows of piles on either side of the proposed dike, forming a passage fifty feet wide. Against these there will be - " a A'l x 11^1 I fiacKea Dags 01 sana anui two parauat embankments aie raised above the sea level. The water will then be pumped out of this area and a dry canal formed from shore to shore. Here on the bed of the Bea the dike will be built of solid ' masonry. Behind the wall will be a bank of earth, bound with willow twige in a series of basket work. For the drainage of this great basin colossal windmills are to be constructed 200 feet in height, with arms seventy-five feet long. These will raise the water into the networfc of canals which will cover the reclaimed area. Nor is this the end of the task. The bottom of the sea is sand of little fertility.- Top nnil triii fertilizers will be brought from every Dutch colouy, and in two i or three generations the depression i will be brought to the level of the canals. Where once the sea flowed unrestricted there will be green gardens and farms, dotted with cottages and towns, and canals oovered with i heavily laden barges. Holland will have spent 350,000,000 i in completing this enterprise, bat she will have added 8600,000,000 to her national wealth, and will have demoni strated afresh the moral greatness of a people who, in the face of suoh tremendous national disadvantages, have the patience to compel earth to yield h<?r frpaqnreR.?Literarv Digest. A New Arctic Idea. A plan is proposed for reaching the North Pole by cutting through fields of ice. The oraft is not unlike the whalebnck in appearance, and is made . of steel, heavily riveted, braced and strengthened to the last limit, in order i to withstand the buffeting incident'to ' such a perilous undertaking. At the i bow of the boat is located what, for lack of a better name, is called an ioe i destroyer, which is composed of a i combination ot tooinea wneeis lich unlike circular saws. These wheels, by revolving rapidly, out the ice into . fragments and open the way through the most solid fields. The idea would suggest itself to the [ critical reader that this might be very ! well, provided the ice was reasonably thin and there could be any assurance, in case of accident, that the vessel i could be gotten out of its rigid eni vironment. But supposing it was i necessary to back out and the ice had , frozen solid behind it, or if it simply 1 cuts a passage wide enough to get i through and there were an obstacle in j the way of proceeding, how is the vesj Bel to turn around and get out? The 1 world is full of the most brilliant inventions, which are perfectly right i and satisfactory if all goes well, but there must invariably be left a wide - margin for accidents and incidents out > of the common. A piece of mechanism I is not complete, perfect or practical i unless it provides to a certain extent f for emergencies. Cold Caves. i In the southern and western part of Missouri, especially in the Ozark re r gions, there are many irregular) shaped openings in the earth, which c the logical geologists term "blow i holes" or "cold caves," and from . which cold blasts of air are constantly ) issuing. One of the unique theories 3 advanced to account for the blowing ) phenomenon is that the temperature of the cave is abnormally reduced by ) the ammonia in the enormous deposits ! of bat manure. Whenever the out3 side atmosphere is above a temperature t of forty-five degrees Fahrenheit these t "blow holes" may be found at work. 3 I HALL'S Vegetable Sicilian j HAIR RENEWER 3 Beautifies and restores Gray 3 Hair to its original color and ^ vitality; prevents baldress; * cures itching and dandruff. t. A fine hair dressing. j ) R. P. HaH & Co., Proj^s., Nashua, N. H. ! ADVERTISING^vSi^' Gni ri mining i 1 ? 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